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TIL when the band Judas Priest appeared on The Simpsons, they were mistakenly defined as “death metal”. The producers decided to apologize for the mistake by having Bart Simpson write “Judas Priest is not ‘Death Metal’” in the opening sequence chalkboard gag.

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